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Nikolai would have made a better and more interesting sun summoner, narratively, and I will die on that hill. His personality even fits it! (Well, at least the public "prince" persona he puts on, and his natural optimism)

You know as much as I will always love Darklina (more the potential of what it could have been but whatever)...

There is something remarkable to be said about Darkolai too.

Like... Every once in a while, I will completely fall down this darkolai rabbit hole. And just devour so many things, and think of different potentials and what ifs and all that.

But I mean, if not the whole sun/shadow and light/dark motif...

You have the whole "will do anything for my country/people" between the Darkling and Nikolai and... While Aleksander is far more radical (due to so many other variables and lifetimes and persecutions and all), their goals are the same.

And I think that's great.

#grishaverse #darkolai #Aleksander Morozov #Nikolai Lantsov #the darkling #message from the queue continuum

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We ask your questions so you don’t have to! Submit your questions to have them posted anonymously as polls.

#FUCK socks #I need to be able to wiggle my toes and feel the ground #don't care how cracked my feet get rn #neurodivergent #poll #gpoy #message from the queue continuum

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au where the lyrics of “We Didn’t Start The Fire” exclusively reference persons and events of historical significance

#you tagged this as 'shitposting' but #it's not shitposting if you're right #history #music #message from the queue continuum

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Make a wish on a dandelion

#Kingdom Hearts #flower girl #Strelitzia #message from the queue continuum

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you know i used to think it was weird how sora and roxas have such different personalities for supposedly being 'the same person' but after playing a few games i sort of realized that they do have similar personalities, because roxas acts how sora does when he's under extreme stress.

compare roxas to sora in, say, kh1. that's where a lot of peoples idea of sora's personality comes from. sora is generally very upbeat and optimistic in that game. not very similar to roxas, right?

but let's switch the game and talk about a game where sora is ABSOLUTELY GOING THROUGH IT. chain of memories.

sora's resting state is melancholy in com. he only ever cheers up in short bursts, usually when he's joking around with friends. just like roxas.

he's quick to anger, and tends to lash out at the organization members. best example of this is when larxene makes him 'remember' namine, and he swings at her repeatedly, even after she's gone. he only stops when jiminy is able to snap him out of it.

you know what scene that resembles?

sora, while a bit more on the angry side and less sad, continues to act like this in kh2 when he's in stressful situations. (he also has a tendancy to insult people which, while it's not very related to the point, is very funny and sora saying 'gonna cry?' to xigbar is great.) i cant comment any further than that about kh2 off the top of my head.

so, roxas acts like sora does when he's stressed, right? but why is roxas always acting like that? to which i say, he isnt!

he only ever acts like that when he's also in fucked up and stressful situations, which happens to be a CONSTANT in his life. but when he's hanging out with axel and xion, a decidedly NOT stressful situation, he's a lot more like sora. he's teasing his friends and insulting his coworkers and joking around and acting like a normal kid. not really important, but unless i misremembered some sora lines which is VERY possible, both roxas and sora respond to friendly insults with "oh thanks!" a lot. just a funny little detail that felt relevant.

the biggest differences between roxas and sora boil down to environment and... i dont know how to put it besides volume? roxas is very quiet and tends to keep most of his thoughts to himself, while sora is very loud and expressive in comparison.

there is one other huge difference i noticed, which is less character based and more story. sora wanted to get off destiny islands and explore with his friends, but roxas just wanted routine. sora wants adventure, and roxas wants things to stay the same, for days where he gets off work and eats ice cream with his friends to last forever, to keep having conversations about nothing and watching the sunset. roxas wants normalcy, sora wants excitement. it's just interesting seeing their contrast.

not sure if this is very well said or anything i just wanted to talk about my boys

#Kingdom Hearts #sunshine dorkupine #wonder twin powers activate #Sora #Roxas #meta #message from the queue continuum

[darkestelemental616]

DON'T GIVE THEM ANY MORE IDEAS

There was a Tumblr update that made it so that there were two different Tumblr apps on your phone and they were called Tumblr p. 1 and Tumblr part 2. Each of them had half the features and you had to constantly go back and forth to do anything.

#tumblr #dreams #message from the queue continuum

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Let us suppose that the "average" horse would have equal proportions of all these parts. The degree to which each part in this poll deviates from the "average" size (20% of total) will determine how large or small that part of our horse will be (i.e a horse with only 10% in Legs will have legs half the size of the average horse).

I will draw a picture of the horse we make!

#let's be fair currently this looks like an actual horse #poll #horses #animals are awesome #message from the queue continuum

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Siege and Storm- Chapter 14 (Leigh Bardugo)

manly man voice: Because I'm an expert on the Darkling. Hundreds of y/o immortal. We're basically twins. We have something going on. A Bond like no other...

#grishaverse #the Darkling #Aleksander Morozov #Nikolai Lantsov #Alina Starkova #Malyen Oretsev #message from the queue continuum

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Not to get emotional on main but I’ve been looking in second hand stores for sewing patterns, and I always find lying next to it a basket of handmade doilies, jumpers, quilts, and it’s almost more than I can bear. I knit, I crochet, I’ve given most lace types a go so I know the painstaking time that goes into each piece, and it feels so cruel to see them and to be offered them for two dollars fifty, two dollars fifty for a year of a woman’s life devoted to what she loved. I’ve been recreating my grandmother’s lace, hoping I can find in a missed stitch the connection I missed before her memories failed. But among her projects is a yellow tablecloth, 6 segments of crocheted lace, the 6th unfinished. I don’t even know if there was meant to be a 7th. You find the same in op shops, crocheted granny squares and sets of just 7, rewound wool still holding the shape of a ghost of a project. I like to imagine it holds something within it, something I could reach if only I picked it up and finished it. I wish I had time, to repair a thousand womens crafts, but I’m so short on time, so busy with projects I only hope will sit next to the work of these artists when I pass.

#art #textiles #crochet #stories #message from the queue continuum

[darkestelemental616]

Lettering practice.

#humor #comics #I'm c r y i n g #message from the queue continuum

[darkestelemental616]

obsessed with this song as a kid

#Kingdom Hearts #music #I love this piece tbh just the way it trips and bubbles #it sounds like a spring #message from the queue continuum

[darkestelemental616]

MX has incredibly broad shoulders. perhaps he overworks them and that's why he has that hunch...aside from being old

#Kingdom Hearts #creepy old man #Xehanort #art #cool shit #message from the queue continuum

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#poll #rome #roman empire #roman republic #message from the queue continuum

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Red Hood, after being kidnapped and stripped of his guns: Don't worry, I've got a few knives up my sleeve.

Random Gothamite, who was also kidnapped: I think you mean cards.

Batman, long suffering: They do not.

Red Hood, pulling out knives: I did not.

#Batfam #Red Hood #Jason Todd #incorrect quotes #Batman #Bruce Wayne #message from the queue continuum

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#Pidge the cat #cats #animals are awesome #photography #message from the queue continuum

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For those who are confused: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spoonerism (I learned about these when I was a kid from a book of random facts.)

A hiker, clearly shaken, enters a remote English village pub, his clothes all torn and he's full of scratches. 

"You won't believe this," he says to the bartender. "I was attacked by a leopard!"

"Really?"

"Yes! A leopard! In England!" The hiker sits down and orders the strongest liquor they've got. "I tried to run, but it was if course much faster than me."

The hiker gets his glass, empties it, and asks for another. "It sent me to the ground with a mighty push from its paws, but weirdly enough it then just gave me a really sad look and left."

"Ah, you met Father Andrews," the bartender says, matter-of-factly.

"What do you mean?" asks the tourist, confused.

"Father Andrews was our priest. A truly kind-hearted man, loved by all. His only goal in life was to serve his congregation as well as he could. So when he one day found a lamp with a genie, his very first wish was to be a loving shepherd to the community."

"That's nice "

"Absolutely, if only he hadn't been so prone to spoonerisms."

#humor #I'm c r y i n g #this is a really good one jeff #message from the queue continuum

[darkestelemental616]

Roxas

#Kingdom Hearts #wonder twin powers activate #Roxas #art #message from the queue continuum